If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

Celestial wisdom calms the mind.

Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure.

Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

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.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.