There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

I work as my father drank.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.