But winter lingering chills the lap of May.

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.

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

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.

Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.