There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange

Our dog chases people on a bike. We've had to take it off him.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their lives to mastering and focusing ideas in every branch of learning; who were eager to distribute the treasures they had gathered before they were overtaken by the night. But now I pity undergraduates, when I see what frivolous lives many of them lead in the midst of precious fleeting opportunity. After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play.

Nothing is perfect on the human stage.