“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
