Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.

A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.

All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.