I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

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

For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.