“It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.”
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
