There Is No Art Which Government Sooner

But Though Empires, Like All The Other Works Of Men, Have All Hitherto Proved Mortal, Yet Every Empire Aims At Immortality.

What Is Prudence In The Conduct Of Every Private Family Can Scarce Be Folly In That Of A Great Kingdom.

Avarice And Injustice Are Always Shortsighted, And They Did Not Foresee How Much This Regulation Must Obstruct Improvement, And Thereby Hurt In The Long-run The Real Interest Of The Landlord.

That This Is The Source Of Our Fellow-feeling For The Misery Of Others, That It Is By Changing Places In Fancy With The Sufferer, That We Come Either To Conceive Or To Be Affected By What He Feels, May Be Demonstrated By Many Obvious Observations, If It Should Not Be Thought Sufficiently Evident Of Itself. When We See A Stroke Aimed And Just Ready To Fall Upon The Leg Or Arm Of Another Person, We Naturally Shrink And Draw Back Our Own Leg Or Our Own Arm; And When It Does Fall, We Feel It In Some Measure, And Are Hurt By It As Well As The Sufferer.

This Is One Of Those Cases In Which The Imagination Is Baffled By The Facts.