In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
Matter is divisible ad infinitum, while form is indivisible.
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes—or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two—is gone.
Short-term funding markets are the Achilles' heel of modern finance.
"History is not what happened. History is just what historians tell us."