There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.