Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion

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

Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back

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

The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.

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.