This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

The present is never a happy state to any human being.

The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts; they do not mean to lie; but, taking no pains to be exact, they give you very false accounts. A great part of their language is proverbial; if anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle; and in this way they go on.

The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to the use of life, in which they are constrained to submit to the imperfections of matter and the influence of accidents.

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.