"I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but ..." — John Maynard Keynes

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

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

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

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.