Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.

Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses.

The act of God injures no one.