The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.