Invention is the mother of necessity.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.

Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Socialism is a dead horse.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

The say money talks, but I've seen it sing, and even seen it dance.

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

My father's a keen sportsman, and so is my mother. My mother's brothers all played international rugby for Samoa. That's where I got my dreams from.

Spikes, " he sighed. "Heads. Walls.

I guess, is we are not saying, "Look, William Shakespeare's written a critique of modern Africa." What we're saying is that we've shifted the metaphor to make it more immediate.

Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.

I bathe in statistics.

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.