To be simple is the best thing in the world.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.