The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!

How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design.