Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible

By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.