If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.

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

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

A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.

Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.