The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.
Samuel JohnsonThe prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is an atrophy. Whatever body or society wastes more than it acquires, must gradually decay, and every being that continues to be fed, and eases to labor, takes away something from the public stock.
Samuel Johnson