Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures? - Joseph Addison

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.

Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or a child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our good-will to mankind.