I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.