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

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.

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

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.

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state ....As Henry Home (Lord Kames) has written, a goal of taxation should be to 'remedy inequality of riches as much as possible, by relieving the poor and burdening the rich.'