It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens

I do not know which makes a man more conservative to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.