If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

Thrift is of great revenue.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

The more laws, the less justice.