Prayer is futility when compared to belief.
Faith must be worked at.
The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.
The government endangers us with our own money.
A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.
From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but