The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.