You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.

The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden causes, a small accident may greatly hurt it, and a great accident for a moment may almost destroy it.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.