Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

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

There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.

We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.