No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

To improve is to change.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.