Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

Walt Whitman

Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

William Shakespeare

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Edward Young

Tell the truth now Your heart is a strange little orange to peel What's the deal?

St. Vincent

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.

Nick Carter

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Karl Marx

The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.

Andrew Jackson

So many other planets

David Self

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

Sogyal Rinpoche

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

Helen Hayes

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Jos

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

Marcel Proust