The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

At its current levels, inflation becomes self-perpetuating because of expectations of higher inflation.

..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.