Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world have a chance for it.

The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.

There seems to be an unalterable contradiction between the human mind and its employments. How can a soul be a merchant? What relation to an immortal being have the price of linseed, the brokerage on hemp? Can an undying creature debit petty expenses and charge for carriage paid? The soul ties its shoes; the mind washes its hands in a basin. All is incongruous.

The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden causes, a small accident may greatly hurt it, and a great accident for a moment may almost destroy it.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.