The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.