A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.