Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.