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.

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.

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

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.

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