A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

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

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

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.