Category: Thought

The market is like a lake agitated by the wind, where the water is incessantly seeking its level without ever reaching it.

A government could print a good edition of Shakespeare’s works, but it could not get them written.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

The artist may doubt his own work, but he is bitterly disappointed if other people doubt it also.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.