“What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?”
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
