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.

Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

Every man is of importance to himself.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.