Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.

The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.