Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.

If you don't gamble, you'll never win.

The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.

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

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.