A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it.

The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.

In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.

By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

Defense is superior to opulence.

As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.