American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.

the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.