When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.
To believe in luck ... is skepticism.
The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.
The lover of letters loves power too.
He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.
The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.