The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

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

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

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

Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.

Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.