Simplicity is always a virtue.

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.

Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.