As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
A canter is the cure for all evil.
Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.