Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.