Happiness, Or Misery, Is In

Give Me, Lord, Neither Poverty Nor Riches.

Freedom Is Not An Empty Sound; It Is Not An Abstract Idea; It Is Not A Thing That Nobody Can Feel. It Means, - And It Means Nothing Else, - The Full And Quiet Enjoyment Of Your Own Property. If You Have Not This, If This Be Not Well Secured To You, You May Call Yourself What You Will, But You Are A Slave.

Be You In What Line Of Life You May, It Will Be Amongst Your Misfortunes If You Have Not Time Properly To Attend To [money Management]; For. ... Want Of Attention To Pecuniary Matters ... Has Impeded The Progress Of Science And Of Genius Itself.

I Cannot... Perceive Any Ground For Hoping That Any Practical Good Would, While The Funding System Exists In Its Present Extent, Result From The Adoption Of Any Of Those Projects, Which Have Professed To Have In View What Is Called Parliamentary Reform... When The Funding System, From Whatever Cause, Shall Cease To Operate Upon Civil And Political Liberty, There Will Be No Need Of Projects For Parliamentary Reform. The Parliament Will, As Far As Shall Be Necessary, Then Reform Itself.

Another Great Evil Arising From This Desire To Be Thought Rich; Or Rather, From The Desire Not To Be Thought Poor, Is The Destructive Thing Which Has Been Honored By The Name Of "speculation"; But Which Ought To Be Called Gambling.