The means are disproportioned to the end, and I will not suffer you to pursue them.

My justice will supply your wants.
But dependance on the justice of others is a precarious condition.

To be the object is a less ennobling state than to be the bestower of benefit.
Doubtless you desire to be vested with competence and riches, and to hold them by virtue of the law, and not at the will of a benefactor......

He paused as if waiting for my assent to his positions.
I readily expressed my concurrence, and my desire to pursue any means compatible with honesty.

He resumed.
There are various means, besides labour, violence, or fraud.