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

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.

He must have known I'd want to leave you.""No, he must have known you would always want to come back.

The devil is always around the corner.

Law is for everyone, justice is for few.

Promises are born broken, to fix them you keep them..

Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit.

Ill always be an amateur photographer.

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.

...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me.

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.