A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using money that he may be asked at short notice to repay, ought to touch, are those which are easily saleable and easily intelligible.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.