Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real. They come, we imagine, directly to us without human meddling, and they are the most effortless food for the mind conceivable.

Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.