Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Money is human happiness in the abstract.