I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

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.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

The grand instructor, time.