In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.

If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.