If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.

Ownership by delegation is a contradiction in terms. When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the public should feel himself an owner of public property-such as a Town Park-and should therefore respect it as his own, they are saying something which all our experience proves to be completely false. No man feels of public property that it is his own; no man will treat it with the care of the affection of a thing which is his own.

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and commercial activities, is not what the controllers of that credit call "interesting." He borrows with difficulty and upon high terms, and must pledge security out of all proportion to that which his richer rival has to put down.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.