All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

Speech is great, but silence is greater.

Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.