To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.
Where security exists, liberty and opportunity do not.
Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.
Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.