The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

We will not have any more crashes in our time.

Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

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.