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

Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.

But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn't you argue the other side?" He said, "That's true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?

The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.

Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists, namely eugenics.