The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all governments; of the most free, as well as or the most despotical. The obligation of building party walls, in order to prevent the communication of fire, is a violation of natural liberty, exactly of the same kind with the regulations of the banking trade which are here proposed.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.