Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.

The moment one asks himself whether he is happy, he ceases to be so.