If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out. - William Blake

The look of love alarms
Because 'tis filled with fire;
But the look of soft deceit
Shall win the lover's hire.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to Arts or to Empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their History shows, for the above Reason of Individual Merit being its Great Hatred. Empires flourish till they become Commercial & then they are scattered abroad to the four winds

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.