All money is essentially merchandize.

Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.

It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.

The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.

All merchandize has the two essential properties of money, to measure and to represent all value: and in this sense all merchandize is money.

Every soil does not produce every material.

Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.

What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.

Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.

The only sacrifice that costs you nothing is staring at ugly girls.

It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

I am the worst judge of my books.

Getting lost is not fatal. Almost every time, it will make your world bigger.

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game

Look, we ought to do this for our kids... We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here - they're all our kids - gets a good high school education.

It's not for everyone. Some people just haven't got it. Maybe he [Boris Johnson] is one of them.