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

In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.

Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

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.

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.