No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.

The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.