All money is a matter of belief.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

The great affair, we always find, is to get money.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.