The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.

The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with no better weapons than other passions and prejudices of our own - convey wisdom to future generations.

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.