Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

Regardless of whether people have free will, human flourishing requires that they live in an environment in which they are treated as if they did.

I’m busy trying not to look like anything edible.

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.

So, is there a "new economy?" The answer is: It depends. It depends on how you define new economy, and it depends on where you live.

Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.

The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.