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- The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. — John Ruskin
- Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. — Albert Einstein
- Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. — Carl Sandburg
- What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. — Robert Graves
- If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. — Robert Graves
- Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued. — Robert Graves