People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.