The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.