An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies - it plays right into the hands of managers who are very focused on research and stock picking.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.