What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!

To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.

No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.