How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.