Though those different plans were, perhaps, first introduced by the private interests and prejudices of particular orders of men, without any regard to, or foresight of, their consequences upon the general welfare of the society;

“The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; …”

“How many people ruin themselves by laying out money on trinkets of frivolous ut…”

“The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with…”

“The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step …”