The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.

I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.

If a cone had dropped on velvet needles, if a star had lain a silver track across the sky, if the dead had turned in their graves - I swear, I would have heard it, that's how silent it all was.

I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

Hello?" Isabelle called from the other side. "Simon, is your diva moment over? I need to talk to Jace.

There are plenty of people over there who understand the difference. And there are plenty of people over here who understand the difference. It's still one world and it has been for a long time.

I can see myself before myself - a being through dark scenery.

Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.

If you already know the answer, Ms. Lane, don’t waste my time. You just wasted a month of it.” -Barrons

Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.