Capital Must Be Propelled By Self-interest; It

Adventure Is The Life Of Commerce, But Caution Is The Life Of Banking.

The Habit Of Common And Continuous Speech Is A Symptom Of Mental Deficiency. It Proceeds From Not Knowing What Is Going On In Other People's Minds.

Poverty Is An Anomaly To Rich People; It Is Very Difficult To Make Out Why People Who Want Dinner Do Not Ring The Bell.

No Man Has Come So Near Our Definition Of A Constitutional Statesman - The Powers Of A First-rate Man And The Creed Of A Second-rate Man.

Nine Tenths Of Modern Science Is In This Respect The Same: It Is The Produce Of Men Whom Their Contemporaries Thought Dreamers - Who Were Laughed At For Caring For What Did Not Concern Them - Who, As The Proverb Went, 'walked Into A Well From Looking At The Stars' - Who Were Believed To Be Useless, If Anyone Could Be Such.