Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

Absolute power demoralizes.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.

There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.