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

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.

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.

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

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

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.