The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.

I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.

Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.