It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.
For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.
It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.
Modern money is almost altogether credit money.
Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.
Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.
At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.
This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners.
When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than I am.