He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.