Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.

An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.