“(1) Use mathematics as shorthand language, rather than as an engine of inquiry. (2) Keep to them till you have done. (3) Translate into English. (4) Then illustrate by examples that are important i...”

“Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.”

“The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. ”

“But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.”

“I am myself an uncompromising anti-Jingoe, a peace-at-almost-any-price man. Chamberlain is the only Unionist public man whom I have ever thoroughly distrusted. Excepting Napoleon, I believe that En...”

“I have not been able to lay my hands on any notes as to Mathematico-economics that would be of any use to you. I have very indistinct memories of what I used to think on the subject. I never read m...”

“I will wait for you until the gold from the sun dwindles away.”

“Gold is the corpse of value...”

“Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.”

“His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.”

“It is not the amount of money or natural resources a nation has that determines how civilized it would be.”

“These women accept their beatings with a simplicity worthy of all praise, and far from considering themselves insulted, admire the strength and energy of the man who can administer such eloquent re...”

“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”