Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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.

Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.