Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.

Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body.