Have Lots Of Experiments, But Make Sure

The Mob, When They Are Gazing At A Dancer On The Slack Rope, Naturally Writhe And Twist And Balance Their Own Bodies, As They See Him Do.

No Society Can Surely Be Flourishing And Happy, Of Which The Far Greater Part Of The Members Are Poor And Miserable.

It Is The Interest Of Every Man To Live As Much At His Ease As He Can; And If His Emoluments Are To Be Precisely The Same, Whether He Does Or Does Not Perform Some Very Laborious Duty, It Is Certainly His Interest, At Least As Interest Is Vulgarly Understood, Either To Neglect It Altogether, Or, If He Is Subject To Some Authority Which Will Not Suffer Him To Do This, To Perform It In As Careless And Slovenly A Manner As That Authority Will Permit.

I Am Always Willing To Run Some Hazard Of Being Tedious, In Order To Be Sure That I Am Perspicuous; And, After Taking The Utmost Pains That I Can To Be Perspicuous, Some Obscurity May Still Appear To Remain Upon A Subject, In Its Own Nature Extremely Abstracted.

But What All The Violence Of The Feudal Institutions Could Never Have Effected, The Silent And Insensible Operation Of Foreign Commerce And Manufactures Gradually Brought About.