In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side of a political frontier, and labour, coal, and blast furnaces on the other. But as it is, men have devised ways to impoverish themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to individual happiness.

I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.

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

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

How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?

The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.