"It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion."

"The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth."

"The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country, or what comes to the same thing, the whole price of that annual produce, naturally divides itself, as has already been observed, into …"

"The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune."

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