The Scum Of The People Are Most

We Ought As Much As We Can To Endeavour The Perfecting Of Our Beings, And That We Be As Happy As Possibly We May.

Why Is Slavery So Much Condemn'd And Strove Against In One Case, And So Highly Applauded And Held So Necessary And So Sacred In Another?

Every One Knows, That The Mind Will Not Be Kept From Contemplating What It Loves In The Midst Of Crowds And Business. Hence Come Those Frequent Absences, So Observable In Conversation; For Whilst The Body Is Confined To Present Company, The Mind Is Flown To That Which It Delights In.

We All Agree That Its Fit To Be As Happy As We Can, And We Need No Instructor To Teach Us This Knowledge, 'tis Born With Us, And Is Inseparable From Our Being, But We Very Much Need To Be Inform'd What Is The True Way To Happiness.

Unhappy Is That Grandeur Which Makes Us Too Great To Be Good; And That Wit Which Sets Us At A Distance From True Wisdom.