Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.

How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?

The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.