Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover either for grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much-cherished aspect of academic freedom.

It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the dispiriting voices of doubt be muted and that there should be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

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

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.