Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself.
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.