I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after taking the utmost pains that I can to be perspicuous, some obscurity may still appear to remain upon a subject, in its own nature extremely abstracted.

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

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with with those of the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements.

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back