Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.