From a social standpoint the man of science does not exist. - William Somerset Maugham

You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.