If Others Had Not Been

He Who Sees The Infinite In All Things Sees God.

The Man Who Never In His Mind & Thoughts Travel'd To Heaven Is No Artist.

A Truth That's Told With Bad Intent Beats All The Lies You Can Invent.

Forgive What You Do Not Approve & Love Me For This Energetic Exertion Of My Talent

Commerce Is So Far From Being Beneficial To Arts, Or To Empire, That It Is Destructive Of Both, As All Their History Shows, For The Above Reason Of Individual Merit Being Its Great Hatred. Empires Flourish Till They Become Commercial, And Then They Are Scattered Abroad To The Four Winds.