People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

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

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.