Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.

Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.

He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.

It is, however, not necessary, that a man should forbear to write, till he has discovered some truth unknown before; he may be sufficiently useful, by only diversifying the surface of knowledge, and luring the mind by a new appearance to a second view of those beauties which it had passed over inattentively before.