Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.
Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.
When great questions end, little parties begin.
The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.