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Paradoxical as it may seem, the evolution of our income tax has been from a low-rate tax relying for revenue on the high income group to a high-rate tax relying on the middle and lower-middle income groups.

Before 1900, very few new income taxes appear to have been enacted anywhere without the stimulus of a war.

The role of the hero was filled, surprisingly, by the most frightening of untested forces in the market—the mutual funds.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because, where perspicacity is weakened, the most benevolent piece of advice can turn out badly.

It soon became evident, though, that public sympathy was one thing and public willingness to translate sympathy into cash was quite another.

To be frank, nothing has changed since The Quiet American—when we finally destroy the whole world it will be with the very best of intentions.

Legislatures and parliaments can get together and pretend to change God's laws, but it has no effect on eternal truth.

There is a Divine Providence operating over and above the materialistic happenings of biological evolution.

The seneschal said in panic, "Stop that man from talking! He is a lawyer!

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

There is no medium between the two things: the earth must either be worthless in our estimation, or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

The frequent mention of the glory of God ought not to be regarded as superfluous, for what is infinite cannot be too strongly expressed.

We both felt that the chief virtue of an interpreter consists in clarity combined with brevity. And

For unless we realize our own helpless misery, we shall never know how much we need the remedy which Christ brings, nor come to him with the fervent love we owe him. But

As age and weakness grew upon him, so he hastened his labour; and, according to his petition to God, he in manner ended his life with his work, for he lived not long after. So

And this is   the origin of freewill, that Adam wished to be independent, [124] and   dared to try what he was able to do.

Therefore, it is blasphemous to give the title Son to anyone but Christ.

Hence we judge the papal sacraments to be frivolous, since in them the voice of God is not heard for the upbuilding of souls.

Since the life of the soul is bound to God, those who are by sin alienated from him are to be regarded as dead.

Rom. 7:10, that the law is turned into a source of ruin for us, not because it is evil but because we are wicked. Therefore

the Word of God we read is written not so much with ink as with the blood of the Son of God; or

The law itself does not produce sin; it finds sin in us. It offers life to us; but we, being evil, derive nothing but death from it. Hence

The whole Epistle is so methodical, that even its very beginning is   framed according to the rules of art.

It is absurd to boast of zeal for the law, when one neglects the divine interpretation of it. So