“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
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All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
