Upstart Greatness Is Everywhere Less Respected Than

The Difference Between The Most Dissimilar Characters, Between A Philosopher And A Common Street Porter, For Example, Seems To Arise Not So Much From Nature, As From Habit, Custom, And Education.

I Am Always Willing To Run Some Hazard Of Being Tedious, In Order To Be Sure That I Am Perspicuous; And, After Taking The Utmost Pains That I Can To Be Perspicuous, Some Obscurity May Still Appear To Remain Upon A Subject, In Its Own Nature Extremely Abstracted.

As Soon As The Land Of Any Country Has All Become Private Property, The Landlords, Like All Other Men, Love To Reap Where They Never Sowed, And Demand A Rent Even For Its Natural Produce.

Great Nations Are Never Impoverished By Private, Though They Sometimes Are By Public Prodigality And Misconduct.

People Of The Same Trade Seldom Meet Together, Even For Merriment And Diversion, But The Conversation Ends In A Conspiracy Against The Public, Or In Some Contrivance To Raise Prices.