Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.