Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we can still take pleasure in reading it to a companion. To him it has all the graces of novelty.

All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.