He that can work is born to be king of something.

Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

Biography is the only true history.

A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens; it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose; no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom; no obstruction lies between it and infinity.

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.