It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.

He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

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.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.