Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…