How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!

An unpopular rule is never long maintained.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.