It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.

Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail of the boar of Erymanth, and the paws of the lion of Nemea.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

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.