But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.