A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

The great affair, we always find, is to get money.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.

An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . hunted out of every corner of the world.

When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.

The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of man who have folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.