America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path...

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the spring of 1927, to cut the rediscount rate. Benjamin Strong, Governor of the bank, was chief advocate of this unwise measure, which was taken largely at the behest of Montagu Norman of the Bank of England....At the time of the Banks action I warned of its consequences....I felt that sooner or later the market had to break.

Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.

There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.