Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.