Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage