It Is Not For Its Own Sake

Man Naturally Desires, Not Only To Be Loved, But To Be Lovely; Or To Be That Thing Which Is The Natural And Proper Object Of Love.

Every Faculty In One Man Is The Measure By Which He Judges Of The Like Faculty In Another. I Judge Of Your Sight By My Sight, Of Your Ear By My Ear, Of Your Reason By My Reason, Of Your Resentment By My Resentment, Of Your Love By My Love. I Neither Have, Nor Can Have, Any Other Way Of Judging About Them.

With The Greater Part Of Rich People, The Chief Enjoyment Of Riches Consists In The Parade Of Riches, Which In Their Eye Is Never So Complete As When They Appear To Possess Those Decisive Marks Of Opulence Which Nobody Can Possess But Themselves.

That A Joint Stock Company Should Be Able To Carry On Successfully Any Branch Of Foreign Trade, When Private Adventurers Can Come Into Any Sort Of Open And Fair Competition With Them, Seems Contrary To All Experience.

Fear Is In Almost All Cases A Wretched Instrument Of Government, And Ought In Particular Never To Be Employed Against Any Order Of Men Who Have The Smallest Pretensions To Independency.