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.

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

Little rogues easily become great ones.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends