The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

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

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

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.