In Public, As Well As In Private

Man Is An Animal That Makes Bargains: No Other Animal Does This - No Dog Exchanges Bones With Another.

By Nature A Philosopher Is Not In Genius And Disposition Half So Different From A Street Porter, As A Mastiff Is From A Greyhound

Virtue Is More To Be Feared Than Vice, Because Its Excesses Are Not Subject To The Regulation Of Conscience.

The Liberal Reward Of Labor, Therefore, As It Is The Necessary Effect, So It Is The Natural Symptom Of Increasing National Wealth. The Scanty Maintenance Of The Laboring Poor, On The Other Hand, Is The Natural Symptom That Things Are At A Stand, And Their Starving Condition That They Going Backwards Fast.

Capitals Are Increased By Parsimony, And Diminished By Prodigalityand Misconduct. By What A Frugal Man Annually Saves He Not Onlyaffords Maintenance To An Additional Number Of Productive Hands?but?he Establishes As It Were A Perpetual Fund For The Maintenance Of An Equal Number In All Times To Come.