A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the people was now the voice of relative affluence. Politicians in pursuit of votes could be expected to have a diminishing concern for the very poor. Compassion would have to serve instead - an uncertain substitute.

If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.

The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.