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.

An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did and never can carry us beyond our own persons, and it is by the imagination only that we form any conception of what are his sensations...His agonies, when they are thus brought home to ourselves, when we have this adopted and made them our own, begin at last to affect us, and we then tremble and shudder at the thought of what he feels.

Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands?but?he establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.

Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.