I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.

Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens are before it.