The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

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

No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.