The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.