Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.