Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.

Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists, namely eugenics.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.