I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

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

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.