"The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever."

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."

"To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit f…"

"Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which h…"

"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"