Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.