Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds.

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.

A Republic, if you can keep it.