The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents, and eruptions. It is only when they work by a steady light of their own, that the press, when it is turned upon them, reveals a situation intelligible enough for a popular decision.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

In a place where everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.

In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to get what it thinks it likes.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

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

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.