Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

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 poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.