Who said “Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the…”?

“If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.”

“The narrower the mind, the broader the statement.”

“When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.”

“A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.”

“I never guess. It is a shocking habit -- destructive to the logical faculty.”

“Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.”

“Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.”

“Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.”

“The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.”

“To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.”

“It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.”