Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.