Avarice is always poor.

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

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

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy.

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Applause abates diligence.