The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.
Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.
Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75.
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.
It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.