But Want of Money & the Distress of A Thief can never be alleged as the Cause of his Thieving, for many honest people endure greater hard ships with Fortitude. We must therefore seek the Cause else where than in want of Money for that is the Misers passion, not the Thiefs.

What is Grand is necessarily obscure to Weak men. That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

Fun I love, but too much Fun is of all things the most loathsom. Mirth is better than Fun & Happiness is better than Mirth.

When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginning…

In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest-usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation-and in a family of peasants, wh…

For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything …