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

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less for certain, and partly future events which can only be forecasted with more or less confidence.

I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.

The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life-will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease

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?

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.