Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich -that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.