How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!
—Edward Young, 1741
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Wherever commerce prevails there will be an inequality of wealth, and wherever the latter does a simplicity of manners must decline.
—James Madison, 1783Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.
—Isocrates, c. 370 BCA criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.
—George Mikes, 1946It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.
—William Pitt, 1805Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.
—Giorgio Baglivi, c. 1696When we define democracy now, it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1941If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
—George Washington, 1783The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCIt is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
—James Hutton, 1795The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.
—Judge Learned Hand, 1944