Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

It is a tie between men to have read the same book.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.