Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.