No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of consuming the goods they do not get born to enjoy.

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.