“The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.”

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.

The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.

The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.

It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.

Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.

The idea behind stamped money is sound.

An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.

I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.

The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else,

I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it’s a big effort these days. So I often write back.

Female performers have been doing this for years – pushing the envelope about sexuality – and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.

It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.

When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.