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

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

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

Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.