The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. - G. K. Chesterton

There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.