It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

Those who had been riding the upward wave decide now is the time to get out. Those who thought the increase would be forever find their illusion destroyed abruptly, and they, also, respond to the newly revealed reality by selling or trying to sell. And thus the rule, supported by the experience of centuries: the speculative episode always ends not with a whimper but with a bang.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.