Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

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

A true party-man hates and despises candour.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.