Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country.

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.