Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.