Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
When the U. S. government stops wasting our resources by trying to maintain the price of gold, its price will sink to. . . $6 an ounce rather than the current $35 an ounce.
We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.
The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.