Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world.

Atheism is too theological.

Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.