Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it.

Have lots of experiments, but make sure they're strategically focused.

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

We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves.

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.

Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.