Make Money Your God, And It Will

Some General Officers Should Pay A Stricter Regard To Truth Than To Call The Depopulating Other Countries The Service Of Their Own.

As It Is The Nature Of A Kite To Devour Little Birds, So It Is The Nature Of Some Minds To Insult And Tyrannize Over Little People; This Being The Means Which They Use To Recompense Themselves For Their Extreme Servility And Condescension To Their Superiors; For Nothing Can Be More Reasonable Than That Slaves And Flatterers Should Exact The Same Taxes On All Below Them Which They Themselves Pay To All Above Them.

Heroes, Notwithstanding The High Ideas Which, By The Means Of Flatterers, They May Entertain Of Themselves, Or The World May Conceive Of Them, Have Certainly More Of Mortal Than Divine About Them.

Lo, When Two Dogs Are Fighting In The Streets, With A Third Dog One Of The Two Dogs Meets; With Angry Teeth He Bites Him To The Bone, And This Dog Smarts For What That Dog Has Done.

It Is Much Easier To Make Good Men Wise, Than To Make Bad Men Good.