The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.