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.

It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.

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

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

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.