If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.

Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!