But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.

In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

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

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.