Man Naturally Desires, Not Only To Be

By Nature A Philosopher Is Not In Genius And Disposition Half So Different From A Street Porter, As A Mastiff Is From A Greyhound

In Every Part Of The Universe We Observe Means Adjusted With The Nicest Artifice To The Ends Which They Are Intended To Produce; And In The Mechanism Of A Plant, Or Animal Body, Admire How Every Thing Is Contrived For Advancing The Two Great Purposes Of Nature, The Support Of The Individual, And The Propagation Of The Species.

Sugar, Rum And Tobacco Are Commodities Which Are Nowhere Necessaries Of Life, Which Are Become Objects Of Almost Universal Consumption, And Which Are Therefore Extremely Proper Subjects Of Taxation.

A Merchant, It Has Been Said Very Properly, Is Not Necessarily The Citizen Of Any Particular Country.

Are You In Earnest Resolved Never To Barter Your Liberty For The Lordly Servitude Of A Court, But To Live Free, Fearless, And Independent? There Seems To Be One Way To Continue In That Virtuous Resolution; And Perhaps But One. Never Enter The Place From Whence So Few Have Been Able To Return; Never Come Within The Circle Of Ambition; Nor Ever Bring Yourself Into Comparison With Those Masters Of The Earth Who Have Already Engrossed The Attention Of Half Mankind Before You.