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.

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

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.

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.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.