That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

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

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.

We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.

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

The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.