Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.