Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.

It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.