No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman.
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.