Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.

Many friendships are swift and accidental, the result of a chance meeting, followed by a permanent separation.

In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic thi…

Boredom was the plague of my childhood. While I was at the orphanage, the boredom came from being in a place I did not wish to be. I was bored. I was bored the…

It seems to be a law of American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

The doctrines of Calvinism involved a reversal of values with which Arnold became increasingly concerned. Work had always been a curse and a means, but it had …

The lack of money is the root of all evil.