Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Society does not love its unmaskers.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.