The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.

Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.