Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.

It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species.

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.