We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves.

The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, capable not only of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting 100 impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.

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

Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.

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