Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of the theories and abstract ideas as things in themselves.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

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.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.