"The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age"

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards"

"A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie"

"Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be"

"A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings"

"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity"

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time"

"Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely"

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

"In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am"

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth"