The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

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.

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

The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.

A true party-man hates and despises candour.

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

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.