As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

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

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.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism,but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends.