Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. – Clarence Day
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. – Clarence Day
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. – Clarence Day
Informations pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. – Clarence Day
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. – John Maynard Keynes
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries. – Edith Wharton