Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.

For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made to be sold. All the collapse of their commercial system in their own time has been due to that fallacy of forcing things on a market where there was no market; of continually increasing the power of supply without increasing the power of demand; of briefly, of always considering the man who sells the potato and never considering the man who eats it.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.