Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.

Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.