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.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.