The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.

If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

God has arrived. I met him on the 5:15 train.

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

Newton was a judaic monotheist of the school of Maimonides

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.