Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.