The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

War remains the decisive human failure.

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.