Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Nothing is black or white.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.