Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.

The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.