Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.