It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.