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.

All money is essentially merchandize.

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

You're about as delicate as an AK-47.

In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.

If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.

A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.

If we are to succeed we must communicate.

Now' is the watchword of the wise.

He is extremely loyal to his friends, but he is tougher than anyone if he feels betrayed.

Just stop at one of these construction sites and look and see who those workers are. They're all Hispanic ... And I bet you they're illegal.

André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil.

I think it would be pretty cool if my kids were super kids.