At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.