Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.

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