Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

Please your eye and plague your heart.

The slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle.

To be poor and dependent is very nearly an impossibility.

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.