Have lots of experiments, but make sure they're strategically focused.

Both ground- rents and the ordinary rent of land are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without any care or attention of his own. The annual produce of the land and labour of the society, the real wealth and revenue of the great body of the people, might be the same after such a tax as before. Ground-rents, and the ordinary rent of land are, therefore, perhaps the species of revenue which can best bear to have a peculiar tax imposed upon them.

A true party-man hates and despises candour.

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

In ease of body, peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level and the beggar who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.