In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India. – Henry Brooke
I actually think that the economy has got some positives. Its got the market. Its got consumer confidence and its got banks throwing – I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world. – Jack Welch
You could compile, I should think, the worst book in the world entirely out of selecting passages from the best writers in the world. – G.K. Chesterton, “On Writing Badly”