All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it.

The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed.

Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.