As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

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

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.