Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.

There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.