“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”

“There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.”

“The more a man looks at a thing, the less he can see it, and the more a man learns a thing, the less he knows it.”

“There is no harm in our criticizing foreigners, if only we would also criticize ourselves. In other words, the world might need even less of its new charity, if it had a little more of the old humility.”

“Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.”

“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”

“There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.”