In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.