Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.

If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals.

The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.

Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between the plutocracy on the one side and a rabble of preposterous impossibilists on the other.