The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.

The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.

Whatever you have spend less.

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.