Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.