No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
The purse strings tie us to our kind.
The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden causes, a small accident may greatly hurt it, and a great accident for a moment may almost destroy it.
Money is economic power.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.