Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.

In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.