The Blessings-of-Civilization Trust, wisely and cautiously administered, is a Daisy. There is more money in it, more territory, more sovereignty, and other kinds of emolument, than there is in any other game that is played. But Christendom has been playing it badly of late years, and must certainly suffer by it, in my opinion. She has been so eager to get every stake that appeared on the green cloth, that the People who Sit in Darkness have noticed it -- they have noticed it, and have begun to show alarm. They have become suspicious of the Blessings of Civilization.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

also given as: Heaven for climate, Hell for companionship.

The landed men are the true owners of our political vessel, the moneyed men are no more than passengers in it

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.

In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, race was already a weapon in the struggle between absolutism, aristocracy, and the middle class. The warfare spr…