When Great Questions End, Little Parties Begin.

A Constitutional Statesman Is In General A Man Of Common Opinions And Uncommon Abilities.

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.

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.

It Is Often Said That Men Are Ruled By Their Imaginations; But It Would Be Truer To Say They Are Governed By The Weakness Of Their Imaginations.

The Best Reason Why Monarchy Is A Strong Government Is, That It Is An Intelligible Government. The Mass Of Mankind Understand It, And They Hardly Anywhere In The World Understand Any Other.