A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

Life is a business that does not cover the costs.

Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.