Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose.

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination with reality; he will look with contempt on his own unimportance, and wonder to what purpose he came into the world; he will repine that he shall leave behind him no evidence of his having been, that he has added nothing to the system of life, but has glided from youth to age among the crowd, without any effort for distinction.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.