We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.

Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.

There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!

The message was, the choices you make can have bad consequences. Everyone has the power of choice. Just like this kid had the power of choice to steal my car.

Contraries are cured by contraries.

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

I fear the financial crisis of 1998 may become the trade crisis of 1999.