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

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

...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.

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

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

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

As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.