“Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.”

“I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice”

“Trade has all the fascination of gambling without its moral guilt.”

“Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.”

“How nearly can what we most despise and hate, approach in outward manner to that which we most venerate!”

“I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.”

“Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.”