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.

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

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

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.