Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

A man is a god in ruins.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

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.