As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done..

All progress is experimental..

There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds..

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion..

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..

The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The ….

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our l….

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity..

One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This….

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge..

You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you..

Good government is the outcome of private virtue..

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to po….

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you….

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 ….

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote ….

Attack another's rights and you destroy your own..

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect..

Too much agreement kills the chat..

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 o….

There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand..