A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

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

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Was ever poet so trusted before?

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little more propriety be reproached as a plagiary, than the architect can be censured as a mean copier of Angelo or Wren, because he digs his marble out of the same quarry, squares his stones by the same art, and unites them in columns of the same orders.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.