Money is economic power.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

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.

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.