Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

Please your eye and plague your heart.

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.