In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.

Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science