Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?

It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!