Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.

If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor

The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.

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.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.