What's good for the United States is good for the New York Stock Exchange. But what's good for the New York Stock Exchange might not be good for the United States.

Our purpose is to lean against the winds of deflation or inflation, whichever way they are blowing.

The Federal Reserve... is in the position of the chaperone who has ordered the punch bowl removed just when the party was really warming up.

Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds.

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation".

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall.

The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.

The [Barack] Obama administration almost appears as though it is afraid of the intelligence community. They're afraid of death by a thousand cuts - you know, leaks and things like that.

Sport is an essential element of education.

Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

We've learned from experience that the truth will out.

There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.