Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty.

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

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.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.