To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.

Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back

When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.

Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.