The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . hunted out of every corner of the world.

The game women play is men.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.