How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.