"While all other things are uncertain, evanescent,..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!”

“Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.”

“In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful”

“He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.”

“The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.”

“I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.”

“What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can't get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.”

“Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.”

“Habit is the great flywheel of society.”