Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

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

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.