I should have drunk more Champagne.

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.

I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

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.

The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.

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

... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.