Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.

When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.