nothing in life is more corroding than habit.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.

Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.

genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.