Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.