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

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.

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.