Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence.

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

Words are but the signs of ideas.