The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

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

An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

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

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