The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using money that he may be asked at short notice to repay, ought to touch, are those which are easily saleable and easily intelligible.

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

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

Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

When great questions end, little parties begin.