Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.