I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Thanks are the highest form of thought.