Hereditary Wealth Is In Reality A Premium

No Maxim Can Be More Pernicious Than That Which Would Teach Us To Consult The Temper Of The Times, And To Tell Only So Much As We Imagine Our Contemporaries Will Be Able To Bear.

If Admiration Were Not Generally Deemed The Exclusive Property Of The Rich, And Contempt The Constant Lackey Of Poverty, The Love Of Gain Would Cease To Be An Universal Problem.

I Shall Attempt To Prove Two Things: First, That The Actions And Dispositions Of Mankind Are The Offspring Of Circumstances And Events, And Not Of Any Original Determination That They Bring Into The World; And, Secondly, That The Great Stream Of Our Voluntary Actions Essentially Depends, Not Upon The Direct And Immediate Impulses Of Sense, But Upon The Decisions Of The Understanding.

The Subtleties Of Mathematics Defecate The Grossness Of Our Apprehension, And Supply The Elements Of A Sounder And Severer Logic.

We Are So Curiously Made That One Atom Put In The Wrong Place In Our Original Structure Will Often Make Us Unhappy For Life.