Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.