To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.
Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.
Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
I am lord of myself, accountable to none.
It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.