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.

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It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.

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

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.