In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.

So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own.

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.