Honor is better than honors.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.