The Creator does not alter His laws to accommodate them to our ignorance.

He has furnished us with intelligence, so that we may understand them and act upon them: otherwise we must suffer the consequences in inevitable pain and sorrow.
We often hear the cry raised, "Will nobody help us ?" It is a spiritless, hopeless cry.

It is sometimes a cry of revolting meanness, especially when it issues from those who with a little self-denial, sobriety, and thrift, might easily help themselves.
Many people have yet to learn, that virtue, knowledge, freedom, and prosperity must spring from themselves.

Legislation can do very little for them: it cannot make them sober, intelligent, and well-doing.

The prime miseries of most men have their origin in causes far removed from Acts of Parliament.
The spendthrift laughs at legislation.