The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
People fail forward to success.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.