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.

I am a beau in nothing but my books.

The great affair, we always find, is to get money.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.

The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.

The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it