Economics and ethics have little in common.

Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.

The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.