The spirit should never grow old.

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus. It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire its securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.

This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?