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

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

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

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.