There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.