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One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnows.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt.

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.