A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.