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.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.