Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.