"If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with ..." — John Maynard Keynes

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.