I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

He that drinks fast, pays slow.

He that would travel much, should eat little.