The Mob, When They Are Gazing At

Consumption Is The Sole End And Purpose Of All Production; And The Interest Of The Producer Ought To Be Attended To, Only So Far As It May Be Necessary For Promoting That Of The Consumer.

When Profit Diminishes, Merchants Are Very Apt To Complain That Trade Decays; Though The Diminution Of Profit Is The Natural Effect Of Its Prosperity, Or Of A Greater Stock Being Employed In It Than Before.

The Natural Price, Therefore, Is, As It Were, The Central Price, To Which The Prices Of All Commodities Are Continually Gravitating.

Men Desire To Have Some Share In The Management Of Public Affairs Chiefly On Account Of The Importance Which It Gives Them.

Are You In Earnest Resolved Never To Barter Your Liberty For The Lordly Servitude Of A Court, But To Live Free, Fearless, And Independent? There Seems To Be One Way To Continue In That Virtuous Resolution; And Perhaps But One. Never Enter The Place From Whence So Few Have Been Able To Return; Never Come Within The Circle Of Ambition; Nor Ever Bring Yourself Into Comparison With Those Masters Of The Earth Who Have Already Engrossed The Attention Of Half Mankind Before You.