Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.