All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.