Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.

Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.

A happy genius is the gift of nature.

It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.

Griefs assured are felt before they come.