A Feather Will Weigh Down A Scale

It Does Not, However, Seem Impossible That By An Attention To Breed, A Certain Degree Of Improvement, Similar To That Among Animals, Might Take Place Among Men. Whether Intellect Could Be Communicated May Be A Matter Of Doubt: But Size, Strength, Beauty, Complexion, And Perhaps Even Longevity Are In A Degree Transmissible... As The Human Race Could Not Be Improved In This Way, Without Condemning All The Bad Specimens To Celibacy, It Is Not Probable, That An Attention To Breed Should Ever Become General.

To Estimate The Value Of Newton's Discoveries, Or The Delight Communicated By Shakespeare And Milton, By The Price At Which Their Works Have Sold, Would Be But A Poor Measure Of The Degree In Which They Have Elevated And Enchanted Their Country; Nor Would It Be Less Grovelling And Incongruous To Estimate The Benefit Which The Country Has Derived From The Revolution Of 1688, By The Pay Of The Soldiers, And All Other Payments Concerned In Effecting It.

The Ordeal Of Virtue Is To Resist All Temptation To Evil.

In General It May Be Said That Demand Is Quite As Necessary To The Increase Of Capital As The Increase Of Capital Is To Demand.

The Perpetual Struggle For Room And Food.