The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Everything can be borne except contempt.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

Better is the enemy of good.