Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

There is only one universal passion fear.

The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.