The Complete Harvard Classics

by Charles William Eliot

Above all things, good policy is to be used that the treasure and moneys in a state be not gathered into few hands. For otherwise a state may have a great stock, and yet starve.

For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of a war.

Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit.