The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

The future is bought with the present.

It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.

There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.

Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief of some pressing uneasiness, or the attainment of some near advantage.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.