Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

Ignorance is not an extension of time

The future is the shape of things to come.

The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.

We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world’s peace, or we must be prepared for – a continuation of war.