Security, the chief pretence of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone’s head.

A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and unveracity.

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially: it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

A man who has no office to go to—I don’t care who he is—is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you’re driving at another.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.