The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.
Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.
The canter is a cure for every evil.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.