Things Perfected By Nature Are Better Than

Rashness Attends Youth, As Prudence Does Old Age.

Let Each Man Have According To His Deserts.

I Speak Of That Learning Which Wakes Us Acquainted With The Boundless Extent Of Nature, And The Universe, And Which Even While We Remain In This World, Discovers To Us Both Heaven, Earth, And Sea.

An Acute First-class Brain Is The Finest Asset Anyone Can Have- And, If We Want To Be Happy, It Is An Asset We Must Exploit To The Uttermost.

If Some Lose Their Whole Fortunes, They Will Drag Many More Down With Them . . . Believe Me That The Whole System Of Credit And Finance Which Is Carried On Here At Rome In The Forum, Is Inextricably Bound Up With The Revenues Of The Asiatic Province. If Those Revenues Are Destroyed, Our Whole System Of Credit Will Come Down With A Crash.