Money Is Economic Power.

No Great Work Has Ever Been Produced Except After A Long Interval Of Still And Musing Meditation.

Capital Must Be Propelled By Self-interest; It Cannot Be Enticed By Benevolence.

The Business Of Banking Ought To Be Simple. If It Is Hard It Is Wrong. The Only Securities Which A Banker, Using Money That He May Be Asked At Short Notice To Repay, Ought To Touch, Are Those Which Are Easily Saleable And Easily Intelligible.

The Mystic Reverence, The Religious Allegiance, Which Are Essential To A True Monarchy, Are Imaginative Sentiments That No Legislature Can Manufacture In Any People.

We Think Of Euclid As Of Fine Ice; We Admire Newton As We Admire The Peak Of Teneriffe. Even The Intensest Labors, The Most Remote Triumphs Of The Abstract Intellect, Seem To Carry Us Into A Region Different From Our Own-to Be In A Terra Incognita Of Pure Reasoning, To Cast A Chill On Human Glory.