Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.