In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.

The charms of money are distinctly under-represented in literature. There are no songs or poems extolling its virtues. This seems on the face of it strange. The claims of money to be celebrated in verse might well seem to be no less than those of faithful dogs, beautiful women, or jugs of wine.

The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.

That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.

People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.

Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything within that purview as firmly under the control of tribal myth and custom, is as strong today as it was in the time of Galileo.

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.