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

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

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.

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

There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged

The best is the cheapest.

Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.