You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.

He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington

Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.

One example is worth a thousand arguments.

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

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

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