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?

It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.

Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.

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

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

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