Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another.

If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken by the sun, will be pleased to see a fainter orb arise on the horizon, that may rescue him from total darkness, though with weak and borrowed lustre.

There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.