A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
Everything you can imagine is real.
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.