A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.