Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

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

A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

Little things are great to little men.