 All progress is experimental. |
| The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. |
| People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it. |
| The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost. |
| Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. |
| A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect. |
| I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns. |
| Too much agreement kills the chat. |
| Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. |
| Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. |
| A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind. |
| Good government is the outcome of private virtue. |
| Politics is organized hatred, that is unity. |
| The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. |
| It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep. |
| People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. |
| Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth. |
