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

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

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 old saying holds. Owe your banker �1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him �1 million and the position is reversed.

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

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.