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

The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

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.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.