The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.