But the motives which urge me to make it are quite irresistible.

Every day that I live I become less and less desirous of great wealth.

But every day makes me more sensible of the importance of a competence.

Without a competence it is not very easy for a public man to be honest; it is almost impossible for him to be thought so.

I am so situated that I can subsist only in two ways: by being in office, and by my pen.