The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of everything.

Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such changes be instituted by some informal and unauthorized propositions, made by some patriotic and respectable citizen or number of citizens.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.