One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

In short I must confide in you to take such care of the men under you as an economical householder would of his own family, doingevery thing within himself as far as he can, and calling for as few supplies as possible. The less you depend for supplies from this quarter, the less you will be disappointed.

Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.