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

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.

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.

True freedom comes from continuous self-development.

Without deep darkness, we fail to appreciate the light.

One may have been a fool but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them.

I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.

My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.

Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.

Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.

It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it.