The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation, for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.

In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

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

These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.