Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.