Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre, the source work from which most of these quotations are taken. This is a newly edited and updated version for ease of online reading, with fully restored typography conventions and author's phrasing to accurately reflect intended meaning of the original published work. Hyperlinks to external references have been introduced to help clarify unfamiliar terminology and offer background context about key personalities and events mentioned in the text.

'There is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side'

'A great many smashes by brilliant men can be traced directly to the swelled head - an expensive disease everywhere to everybody, but particularly in Wall Stre…

'From my point of view, the investors are the big gamblers. They make a bet, stay with it, and if all goes wrong, they lose it all.'

A Health, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Joinville's biography of Louis IX in the original Middle French.

Joinville's biography of Louis IX in the English translation by Ethel Wedgwood.