"It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses."

"There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action."

"Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages."

"When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public."

"I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom."

"No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye."