Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.