Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost! (96)

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.

Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.

People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.