It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.

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

The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.