The Best Way To Help The Poor

Diligence Overcomes Difficulties; Sloth Makes Them.

There Seem To Be But Three Ways For A Nation To Acquire Wealth. The First Is By War, As The Romans Did, In Plundering Their Conquered Neighbors. This Is Robbery. The Second By Commerce, Which Is Generally Cheating. The Third By Agriculture, The Only Honest Way, Wherein Man Receives A Real Increase Of The Seed Thrown Into The Ground, In A Kind Of Continual Miracle, Wrought By The Hand Of God In His Favor, As A Reward For His Innocent Life And His Virtuous Industry.

Do Good To Thy Friend To Keep Him, To Thy Enemy To Gain Him.

Make No Expense But To Do Good To Others Or Yourself.

Who Has Deceived Thee As Oft As Thyself.