Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of consuming the goods they do not get born to enjoy.

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.