They [bankers] would do what has been done by the Bank of France—buy bullion at a premium, on the approach of danger, and keep peril at a safe and respectable distance. Any expenditure that might be incurred for that purpose would be small indeed when contrasted with the immense loss and suffering caused by the present system, and the continual fear in which the public now live of some new crisis—because it has been out of one and into another for a long period now; and that will be the case hereafter, until we have no interval to gather strength, and recruit for the next struggle with Mammon, or Moloch, or whatever other name of evil import belongs to the Tutelarity of Lombard-street and its precincts.

The flow of nitrogen from night-soil in rural China is valuable, whereas human excrement in an urban center is a pollution problem.

Percy is but my factor, good my Lord, / To engroſſe vp glorious deeds on my behalfe.

You keep Max from destroying you and your family. Which is what he’s after, believe me.