Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

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

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.

It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.

Defense is superior to opulence.

In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.