Necessity, the mother of invention.
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
One may like the love and despise the lover.
'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.