What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing ones ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. – Victor Cherbuliez
The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians. – Henry Hazlitt