The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

A conventional valuation which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable to change violently as the result of a sudden fluctuation of opinion due to factors which do not really make much difference to the prospective yield; since there will be no strong roots of conviction to hold it steady.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!

I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.

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

The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life-will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease