Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.