Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

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.

In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.

I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.