The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

We may not say to the poor: "You have a right to fight the rich merely because they are rich and in order to make yourselves less poor." We may say: "You have a right to fight to prevent the conditions of your life becoming inhuman," but we may not say, "You have a right to fight merely because you desire to have more and your opponent to have less."

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all, merely upon the prospect of their success, and always upon terms far easier than are open to their smaller rivals. It is perhaps on this line of easier credit that large capital today does most harm to small capital, drives it out and ruins it.

I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.