ABSTRACT
Let no man build on the expected gratitude of those he spends his strength to serve! Let him be beneficent if he will; but let him not depend for his happiness on the conviction of his rectitude and virtue that is to be impressed on the minds of others! There is a principle in the human breast, that easily induces them to regard everything that can be done for them, as no more than their due, and speedily discharges them from the oppressive consciousness of obligation.
