Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.

The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.