But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

I have no faith in political arithmetic.

The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.

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.

Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.

The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.