Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
You can never plan the future by the past.
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.
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.