The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.