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.

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.

Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.

But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.