Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.
As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.
The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the sufferer. Mankind, though naturally sympathetic, never conceive, for what has befallen another, that degree of passion which naturally animates the person principally concerned.
A sketch of a man facing to the right.
The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.
Men of the most robust make, observe that in looking upon sore eyes they often feel a very sensible soreness in their own, which proceeds from the same reason; that organ being in the strongest man more delicate, than any other part of the body is in the weakest.
Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.
The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.
The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
The game women play is men.
As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.
When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we can still take pleasure in reading it to a companion. To him it has all the graces of novelty.
Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.