Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

Hope of gain lessens pain.