(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.

The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred, best instructed men on earth and give them special power for half an hour and because they are men they will begin to [perform] badly.

The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.