It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.