In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.