All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

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.

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.