In the long run we are all dead.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case

It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.