... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

The fearful are the failing.

Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

Some determined advocates of the vegetable system maintain, that the teeth and stomach of the monkey correspond, in structure, very closely with that of man, yet it lives on fruits - therefore if man followed nature, he would live on fruits and vegetables. But though the anatomical likeness between man and monkeys is striking, yet it is not complete; the difference may be and doubtless is precisely that which makes a difference of diet necessary to nourish and develope their dissimilar natures. Those who should live as the monkeys do would most closely resemble them.