Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance