Wherever There Is Great Property There Is

Though The Principles Of The Banking Trade May Appear Somewhat Abstruse, The Practice Is Capable Of Being Reduced To Strict Rules. To Depart Upon Any Occasion From Those Rules, Is Consequence Of Some Flattering Speculation Of Extraordinary Gain, Is Almost Always Extremely Dangerous, And Frequently Fatal To The Banking Company Which Attempts It.

When The Profits Of Trade Happen To Be Greater Than Ordinary, Over-trading Becomes A General Error Both Among Great And Small Dealers.

The Statesman Who Should Attempt To Direct Private People In What Manner They Ought To Employ Their Capitals Would Not Only Load Himself With Most Unnecessary Attention But Assume An Authority Which Could Safely Be Trusted To No Council And Senate Whatever, And Which Would Nowhere Be So Dangerous As In The Hands Of Man Who Have Folly And Presumption Enough To Fancy Himself Fit To Exercise It.

The Property Which Every Man Has In His Own Labour, As It Is The Original Foundation Of All Other Property, So It Is The Most Sacred And Inviolable.

Individual Ambition Serves The Common Good.