It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs, are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics, none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness, as to earn peace and self-respect.
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.