Intelligent Quotes

“The law of nature is, Do the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.”

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”

“The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that every thing has its price—and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained, and that it is impossible to get any thing without its price—is not less sublime in the columns of a ledger than in the budgets of states.”

“I’m afraid that’s the way it [reality] is. If there are twenty factors and they interact some, you’ll have to learn to handle it—because that’s the way the world is. But you won’t find it that hard if you go at it Darwin-like, step by step with curious persistence. You’ll be amazed at how good you can get.”

“You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”

“If you see smoke, there must be fire.”

“If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.”

“If the government is cruel, the governor’s life is not safe.”

“If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.”

“If the law is too mild, private vengeance comes in.”

“For want of a nail the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe, the horse is lost; for want of a horse the rider is lost.”

“Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occured in experience.”

“The law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.”

“Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.”

“Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.”

“All successful men have agreed in one thing—they were causationists.”

“The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace.”