If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.

Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them sufficiently so that they have no need of the Patronage of great Men; and every one will enjoy securely the Profits of his Industry. But if he does not bring a Fortune with him, he must work and be industrious to live.

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.