Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

The purse strings tie us to our kind.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.

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

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.