Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.