All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…