Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.

It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?

Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism of the body. It is likewise proportioned to the occasions of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too.