Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.