An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial.

We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.