Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.

Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.