Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.

The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

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.