To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it.

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.

All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.

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.

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

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.