Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it

Reason and truth will prevail at last

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures