Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.