The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. - John Maynard Keynes

The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.

I see us free, therefore, to return to some of the most sure and certain principles of religion and traditional virtue – that avarice is a vice, that the exaction of usury is a misdemeanour, and the love of money is detestable, that those walk most truly in the paths of virtue and sane wisdom who take least thought for the morrow. We shall once more value ends above means and prefer the good to the useful. We shall honour those who can teach us how to pluck the hour and the day virtuously and well, the delightful people who are capable of taking direct enjoyment in things, the lilies of the field who toil not, neither do they spin.

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.