"As much wisdom may be expended on..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.”

“I think no virtue goes with size.”

“Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.”

“Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.”

“Not all change is progress.”

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”

“Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American”

“When you talk about the stimulus package, you can ask 1,000 different people and they - you will have 1,000 different opinions of what is the ideal stimulus package.”

“If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.”