“Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing. No conversion after the first half hour.”

“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”

“The world," he resumed after a short pause, "has no faith in any man's conversion; it never forgets what he was, it never believes him anything better, it is an inexorable and stupid judge.”

“Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.”

“For both long and short periods there is a consistent though not precise relation between the rate of growth of the quantity of money and the rate of growth of nominal income. If the quantity of money grows rapidly, so will nominal income, and conversely. The relation is much closer for long than for short periods”

“Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else's.”

“It’s always better to tell a half-truth than a half-lie.”

“Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.”

“Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.”

“Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit
Of This and That endeavour and dispute;
Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape
Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.”