“Whenever there is a job to be taken on of a kind calculated to make Humanity shudder, the cry goes up, ‘Let Wooster do it.”

“It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.”

“If they do that kind of job is because they are anthropologically different from the other human beings.”

“For heroes do not make history—that is the historians’ job—but, passive, let themselves be borne along, swept up to the crest of the tide of change, of chance, of war.”

“Is precisely in market dealings that market prices are formed for all kinds of goods and services, which will be taken as the bases of calculation. Where there is no free market, there is no pricing mechanism; without a pricing mechanism, there is no economic calculation.”

“Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.”

“She’s all for not letting the sun go down without having started something calculated to stagger humanity.”

“As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.”

“The true meaning of kindness reveals itself to us whenever we do a very kind act.”

“Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don't have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.”