Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

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

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

It would be too ridiculous to go about seriously to prove that wealth does not consist in money, or in gold and silver; but in what money purchases, and is valuable only for purchasing. Money no doubt, makes always a part of the national capital; but it has already been shown that it generally makes but a small part, and always the most unprofitable part of it.

The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.