Trouble Springs From Idleness.

Remember, That Six Pounds A Year Is But A Groat A Day.

Opportunity Is The Great Bawd.

Some Volumes Against Deism Fell Into My Hands ... They Produced An Effect Precisely The Reverse To What Was Intended By The Writers; For The Arguments Of The Deists, Which Were Cited In Order To Be Refuted, Appeared To Me Much More Forcibly Than The Refutation Itself; In A Word, I Soon Became A Thorough Deist.

The Importation Of Foreigners Into A Country That Has As Many Inhabitants As The Present Employments And Provisions For Subsistence Will Bear, Will Be In The End No Increase Of People, Unless The New Comers Have More Industry And Frugality Than The Natives, And Then They Will Provide More Subsistence, And Increase In The Country; But They Will Gradually Eat The Natives Out. Nor Is It Necessary To Bring In Foreigners To Fill Up Any Occasional Vacancy In A Country For Such Vacancy Will Soon Be Filled By Natural Generation.

Governments Having Failed The People, The People Are Entirely Justified In Assuming For Themselves An Essential Role In Government. Where A Government Takes Proper Measures To Protect The People Under Its Care, Such A Proceeding Might Have Been Thought Both Unnecessary And Unjustifiable: But Here It Is Quite The Reverse.