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

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

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

The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.