He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.

Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.

I'd rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.