There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.