It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.

Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.

The more we know, the better our intuitions.

People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.

Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!

It is most oppressive to be an aunt.