Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

Go into the London Stock Exchange - a more respectable place than many a court - and you will see representatives from all nations gathered together for the utility of men. Here Jew, Mohammedan and Christian deal with each other as though they were all of the same faith, and only apply the word infidel to people who go bankrupt. Here the Presbyterian trusts the Anabaptist and the Anglican accepts a promise from the Quaker.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture for wild beasts to fight in.

One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

All mortals are equal; it is not their birth, But virtue itself that makes the difference.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

Life is just a notebook with blank pages. Every time we make a mistake, the pages get stained and living in it becomes impossible.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.