There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.

The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.

I should have drunk more Champagne.

Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

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

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.