Where combination is possible, competition is impossible.

To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.

I am much obliged by the favorable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans.

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

You'll never understand me as long as you're looking at me through society's lenses.

Are you destitute for the Fire of God? Nothing else matters! Possess ye God's Fire! All else is void!

We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.

This is how The Jewel operates. Status is our sole occupation. Gossip is our currency.

One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.

Good husbands make good wives.

Praise, or gratitude, is love or faith in action.

When people believe in you, you can do miraculous things.

The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made mechanics analytical; I mean Euler.