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The Business Of Banking Ought To Be Simple. If It Is Hard It Is Wrong. The Only Securities Which A Banker, Using Money That He May Be Asked At Short Notice To Repay, Ought To Touch, Are Those Which Are Easily Saleable And Easily Intelligible.

Stupidity Is Nature's Favorite Resource For Preserving Consistency Of Opinion.

Conquest Is The Missionary Of Valor, And The Hard Impact Of Military Virtues Beats Meanness Out Of The World.

The Most Intellectual Of Men Are Moved Quite As Much By The Circumstances Which They Are Used To As By Their Own Will. The Active Voluntary Part Of A Man Is Very Small, And If It Were Not Economized By A Sleepy Kind Of Habit, Its Results Would Be Null.

Life Is Not A Set Campaign, But An Irregular Work, And The Main Forces In It Are Not Overt Resolutions, But Latent And Half-involuntary Promptings.