He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.