People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a manifestation of deficient scholarship. This is the fortress behind which the minimally coherent regularly find refuge.

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.

The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.