The Tolls For The Maintenance

People Of The Same Trade Seldom Meet Together, Even For Merriment And Diversion, But The Conversation Ends In A Conspiracy Against The Public, Or In Some Contrivance To Raise Prices. It Is Impossible Indeed To Prevent Such Meetings, By Any Law Which Either Could Be Executed, Or Would Be Consistent With Liberty Or Justice. But Though The Law Cannot Hinder People Of The Same Trade From Sometimes Assembling Together, It Ought To Do Nothing To Facilitate Such Assemblies; Much Less To Render Them Necessary.

It Is Unjust That The Whole Of Society Should Contribute Towards An Expence Of Which The Benefit Is Confined To A Part Of The Society.

In The Long-run The Workman May Be As Necessary To His Master As His Master Is To Him, But The Necessity Is Not So Immediate.

By Nature A Philosopher Is Not In Genius And Disposition Half So Different From A Street Porter, As A Mastiff Is From A Greyhound

Individual Ambition Serves The Common Good.