All Passions Exaggerate; And They Are Passions

It Is When Their Age Of Passions Is Past That Great Men Produce Their Masterpieces, Just As It Is After Volcanic Eruptions That The Soil Is Most Fertile.

An Economist Is A Surgeon With An Excellent Scalpel And A Rough-edged Lancet, Who Operates Beautifully On The Dead And Tortures The Living.

Preoccupation With Money Is The Great Test Of Small Natures, But Only A Small Test Of Great Ones.

The Success Of Many Books Is Due To The Affinity Between The Mediocrity Of The Author's Ideas And Those Of The Public.

In Great Matters, Men Behave As They Are Expected To; In Little Ones, As They Would Naturally