It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.

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

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.

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves.