No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.
Money is economic power.
All people are most credulous when they are most happy.
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? And is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?