- "No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer."
- "Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular."
- "One rich Man hath Lands, not only more than he can manage, but so much, that letting them out to others, he is supplied with a large over-plus, so needs no farther care."
- "A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so."
- "If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame."
- "Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life."
- "The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century."
- "Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?"