Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.