Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
That we must all die, we always knew, I wish I had sooner remembred it.
There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the catalogue.
Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.