To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.
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.