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

Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.