The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species.

Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

Mechanizing man's work had changed but not lighted his toil.

Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.

Trade is a social act.