There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place
The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit.
Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.
Out of monuments, names, words proverbs. . . and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
Loyalty is such a rare quality; but my fans are the most loyal in the world.