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

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.

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.