“Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.”

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

There are male as well as female gossips.

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.

As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation’s goods.

I am always capital short. If I see the opportunity, I will get the money.

We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.

Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.

Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin.

Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.

Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.

The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.