Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Money is economic power.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the most imposing personages of the a splendid procession; it is by them that the mob are influenced; it is they who the inspectors cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second hand carriages; no one cares for them or asks about them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendour of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.