If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

A very complicated mass of things influences the economy - the speculative effect, government policy, consumer borrowing and spending, the level of technical innovation (which I concede, although everyone emphasizes it too much), and much more - including, of course, the rate of inflation.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.