As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

Americans have a strange notion that the ordinary laws of economics do not apply to them. So doubtless they will think they are prosperous if the boom starts, and that deficits and indebtedness are merely signs of how prosperous they are.

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class.