If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the most helpless and impotent of mankind, and yet a violence... and a boistrousness in their resentment, as if they had been puffed up with the highest prosperity and power. they will not only be served, but it must also be in their own way and on their own principles and even in words and language that they liked... which renders it very difficult for a plain unguarded man as I am to have anything to do with them or their affairs.
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.
It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.
The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.
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