Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.

Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

I wish I'd drunk more champagne.