Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.

Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.