To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

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

Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back