Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.