As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.
Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
I say that justice is truth in action.
I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.
The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.