“He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.Daniel Webster
“Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling and havoc-wreaking.Gustave Flaubert
“Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.Aldous Huxley
“Your borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.Charles Lamb