There Mark What Ills The Scholar's Life

Plenty Is The Original Cause Of Many Of Our Needs; And Even The Poverty, Which Is So Frequent And Distressful In Civilized Nations, Proceeds Often From That Change Of Manners Which Opulence Has Produced. Nature Makes Us Poor Only When We Want Necessaries; But Custom Gives The Name Of Poverty To The Want Of Superfluities.

A Tavern Chair Is The Throne Of Human Felicity.

A Man Who Both Spends And Saves Money Is The Happiest Man, Because He Has Both Enjoyments.

Hides From Himself His State, And Shuns To Know That Life Protracted Is Protracted Woe.

No Government Power Can Be Abused Long. Mankind Will Not Bear It.... There Is A Remedy In Human Nature Against Tyranny, That Will Keep Us Safe Under Every Form Of Government.