The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

There remains a natural career progression even though the tougher job climate seeks to delay it.

When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another.

I see wings dancing around me Beleive in your dreams.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

I love not being in a comfortable state, anyway. That makes for much more interesting storylines and an interesting story.

My mind runs I can never catch it even if I got a head start.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.