Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.

Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action; then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

Some things were never meant to be recycled.

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.