There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
We have an intuitive sense of our duty.
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.