Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.
When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous