Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.