To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

We are taught words, not ideas.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.