To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

In democratic countries as well as elsewhere most of the branches of productive industry are carried on at a small cost by men little removed by their wealth or education above the level of those whom they employ.

He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do value it.

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.