Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.

You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.