“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”

“Where commerce and capitalism are invloved, often times, morality and honor sink to the bottom-Oliver Goldsmith paraphrased”

“I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant.”

“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”

“law grinds the poor, rich men rule the law”

“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”