An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.