Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.