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.

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

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

No share-pusher could vend his worthless stock, if he could not count on meeting, in his prospective victim, an unscrupulous avarice as vicious as his own, but stupider. Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.