When great questions end, little parties begin.

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using money that he may be asked at short notice to repay, ought to touch, are those which are easily saleable and easily intelligible.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.