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

Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.

It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.

Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question.