When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour. - Jean-Baptiste Say

To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence.

The wealthy are generally impressed with an idea, that they shall never stand in need of public charitable relief; but a little less confidence would become them better.

The ancients, by their system of colonization, made themselves friends all over the known world; the moderns have sought to make subjects, and therefore have made enemies.