To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

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.

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

[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.