Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.