By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for the prestige which accrues to the man who presides over meetings, and this leads them to convoke assemblages over which they can preside. Finally, there is the meeting which is called not because there is business to be done, but because it is necessary to create the impression that business is being done. Such meetings are more than a substitute for action. They are widely regarded as action.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.