In this world our prudence is rewarded, and our imprudence punished; the one by satisfaction and external advantages, the other by inconveniences and sufferings. These afford instances of a right constitution of nature.
Joseph Butler, Analogy of Religion. (The edition linked to is Hobart's Analysis, which was designed to help students study Butler's Analogy -- which was a major textbook at many schools in the nineteenth century -- for the purposes of passing examinations. Like CliffsNotes, only more thorough and less misleading.)
