The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

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

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

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.