Though wisdom cannot be gotten with gold, still less can it be gotten without it.

The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.