You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may now expect to see, not only in theory and in books but in actual practice, calculated for the general good, and taking no more upon it than the general good requires, leaving all men the enjoyment of as many of their natural rights as possible, and no more interfering with matters of religion, with men's notions concerning God, and a future state, than with philosophy, or medicine.

Joseph Priestley, in a letter to

I support the truth, that is all there is to it. And if you fall in that category of the truth, you are supported by the truth.

Jose Canseco

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

John Buchanan Robinson

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

Victor Hugo

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.

Merle Haggard

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

Tim O'Reilly

Most smiles are started by another smile.

Frank A. Clark

I'd say to any woman, get out of that bad relationship that's turning you into a shell of your former self. Learn from it and get out. Then wait enjoy yourself and your friends because, when what you want comes along, you'll spot it.

Cat Deeley

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Robert Frost

To be content with life -- or to live merrily, rather --all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb