"The highest and most important things in life are not to be found in the realm of the senses."

"Speed, it seems, is the only quality that gives pleasure to the modern mind."

"Medical science has made such tremendous advances that there is hardly an ailment today for which there isn't some drug that will either cure it or make the patient feel better -- until he dies."

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."

"The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to portray... but in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fing…"