Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth–that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe… Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

Never let your inferiors do you a favor – it will be extremely costly.