Read moreOne of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
Read moreWe are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
Read moreI have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
Read moreThe historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
Read moreSurely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
Read moreBe soft, even if you stand to get squashed.