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

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Inquiries into the heart are not for man.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.