The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth

If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.