And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.

I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

Our best history is still poetry.

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.