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.

We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

It is a strange anomaly that men could be careful to insure their houses, their ships, their merchandise, and yet neglect to insure their lives - surely the most important of all to their families, and more subject to loss.