A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.

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

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

When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.