"This is the arresting and dominant fact about modern social discussion; that the quarrel is not merely about the diff…"

"The only way to discuss the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal. We can all see the national madness; b…"

"There has arisen in our time a most singular fancy: the fancy that when things go very wrong we need a practical man.…"

"Most of us have suffered from a certain sort of ladies who, by their perverse unselfishness, give more trouble than t…"

"Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them. Men will walk along the edge of a chasm in clear weather,…"

"The only logical cure for all this is the assertion of a human ideal. In dealing with this, I will try to be as littl…"

"Evolution can produce a workman who wants no more space than a snail, and no more light than an owl. The employer nee…"

"The future is a blank wall on which every man can write his own name as large as he likes; the past I find already co…"

"Now in history there is no Revolution that is not a Restoration. Among the many things that leave me doubtful about t…"

"But exactly the whole difficulty in our public problems is that some men are aiming at cures which other men would re…"