The Mystic Reverence, The Religious Allegiance, Which

If You Have To Prove You Are Worthy Of Credit, Your Credit Is Already Gone.

One Of The Greatest Pains To Human Nature Is The Pain Of A New Idea. It...makes You Think That After All, Your Favorite Notions May Be Wrong, Your Firmest Beliefs Ill-founded....naturally, Therefore, Common Men Hate A New Idea, And Are Disposed More Or Less To Ill-treat The Original Man Who Brings It.

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

A Political Country Is Like An American Forest; You Have Only To Cut Down The Old Trees, And Immediately New Trees Come Up To Replace Them.

The Maxim Of Science Is Simply That Of Common Sense-simple Cases First; Begin With Seeing How The Main Force Acts When There Is As Little As Possible To Impede It, And When You Thoroughly Comprehend That, Add To It In Succession The Separate Effects Of Each Of The Incumbering And Interfering Agencies.