Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.

As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.

A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness.