When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.
We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act
Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence.
The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.