As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

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.

An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.

China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.

The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.

Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with with those of the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements.