Defective Quote by Joseph Addison

Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than…

— Jean de la Bruyere

That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their…

— William Penn

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished…

— James Anthony Froude

The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at…

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment

— Arnold Bennett

Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore…

— Isaac Barrow

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

— Benjamin Franklin

The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has…

— Samuel Johnson

A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to shun the…

— George Gilder

Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each other, that…

— Samuel Johnson