All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

He who is present at a wrongdoing and does not lift a hand to prevent it, is as guilty as the wrongdoers.

American Indian Proverb, Omaha

Love is the poetry of the senses.

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The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Henry Ward Beecher

I filled out an application that said, In Case Of Emergency Notify.I wrote Doctor...What's my mother going to do?

Steven Wright

And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.

Shirley Manson

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

Nigel Kneale

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Omar N. Bradley

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandler

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

Charles Francis Richter

A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.

Marquis De Custine

We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.

William James