In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.
Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.
If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.
I think the hardest thing is to know what you want, ask for it, and then to stop talking.
Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?