There is no little enemy

Display is as false as it is costly.

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

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.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.