"Gold--what can it not do, and undo?..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.”

“As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.”

“Have patience, and endure”

“The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.”

“Technology & technicians, you can always buy with money; but the wealthiest person must build relationships.”

“No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.”

“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”

“The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.”

“If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.”