Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?