What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.

He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.

Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

Inquiries into the heart are not for man.