A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.