In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel.

In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel.

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

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

It is certain that most who concentrate upon achievement miss life.

Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice have brought together. In this sense, families, clubs, and learned societies have their 'politics'. But the communities in which this manner of activities is pre-eminent are the hereditary co-operative groups, many of them of ancient lineage, all of them aware of a past, a present and a future, which we call states.

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