Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of Nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.

Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.