Men, Like Animals, Naturally Multiply

The Tolls For The Maintenance Of A High Road, Cannot With Any Safety Be Made The Property Of Private Persons.

The Man Scarce Lives Who Is Not More Credulous Than He Ought To Be... The Natural Disposition Is Always To Believe. It Is Acquired Wisdom And Experience Only That Teach Incredulity, And They Very Seldom Teach It Enough.

That A Joint Stock Company Should Be Able To Carry On Successfully Any Branch Of Foreign Trade, When Private Adventurers Can Come Into Any Sort Of Open And Fair Competition With Them, Seems Contrary To All Experience.

The Ancient Egyptians Had A Superstitious Antipathy To The Sea; A Superstition Nearly Of The Same Kind Prevails Among The Indians; And The Chinese Have Never Excelled In Foreign Commerce.

Great Ambition, The Desire Of Real Superiority, Of Leading And Directing, Seems To Be Altogether Peculiar To Man, And Speech Is The Great Instrument Of Ambition.