When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.

A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him. It is necessarily part of the business of a banker to maintain appearances, and to confess a conventional respectability, which is more than human. Life-long practices of this kind make them the most romantic and the least realistic of men.

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.

Chess is a cure for headaches.

I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize - not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years - the way the world thinks about economic problems.