How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.

Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.

Live constructively and live optimistically.

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.

The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy

What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.