I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.