There is so much data available to us, but most data won’t help us succeed.
Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.
The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
A man’s perfection is his work.
That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.
A fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work.
All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
Thirty millions, mostly fools.
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.
A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him.
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.