...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance of contract,... governments are fast rendering impossible a continuance of the social and economic order of the nineteenth century.

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.

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

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

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

The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils. For this would force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects and to those only.

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