Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come.

Good men do the most harm.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.