What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

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 only training for the heroic is the mundane.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.