Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.