Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

Error is always talkative.

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

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

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.