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

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.

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.

A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.

Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention

I like the idea of Warrior Flitwick running to save the day by screaming, "Let's do some charm harm, my snitches!

I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!

Yes, I have patterns of love addiction. But I'm a woman. Of course I do.

Without competitors there would be no need for strategy.

Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.

Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear from us, without resistance, our natural, undisputed rights.

But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.