‘I see no reason why the electric forces of the earth don’t consolidate gold to an easily accessible spot, from which we might fashion our currency. But Nature does not manage it so. She puts it in little fissures in the earth, nobody knows where: you may dig long and find none; you must dig […]

‘Aren’t we ever going to leave anything to destiny, or to good luck, or to the happy suggestion of some wise book seller?‘― Christopher Morley

‘We see in all other pleasures, there is satiety, and after they be used, their verdure departeth, which showeth well they be but deceits of pleasure, and not pleasures; and that it was the novelty which pleased, and not the quality. And, therefore, we see that voluptuous men turn friars, and ambitious princes turn melancholy. […]