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

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.

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

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

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.

...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.

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