There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

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

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

The past is not what it was.