Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

It is certain that most who concentrate upon achievement miss life.

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.

Teetering on the edge of comfortable brings us closer to ourselves and each other.

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

It takes a Mother's Patience, to bring a child up right, And her Courage and her Cheerfulness to make a dark day bright.

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.