Progress can do nothing but make the most of us all as we are:

Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment, will ruin us if our citizens are ill bred.

We must either breed political capacity or be ruined by Democracy, which was forced on us by the failure of the older alternatives. Yet if Despotism failed onl…

The schoolboy who uses his Homer to throw at his fellow's head makes perhaps the safest and most rational use of him than any one ever will.

I believe that the man choosing progress can find a new unity through the full development of all his human forces, which are produced in three orientations. T…

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Certes, c'est un subject merveilleusement vain, divers, et ondoyant, que l'homme. Il est malaise d'y fonder jugement constant et uniforme.