A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have benefit of all the interest on all the money that it creates out of nothing. ... Now the American citizen can, of course, appeal to his constitution, which states that Congress shall have power to coin money or regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin. Such appeal is perhaps quixotic.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.