It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

All money is a matter of belief.

But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies.

It may indeed be doubted whether butchers' meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil where butter is not to be had, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet. Decency nowhere requires that any man should eat butchers' meat.

When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.