There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.

Advertise, or go under.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.