Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.

In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks.

A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)