As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.