This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

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

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to encourage the remarks of others, will find himself every day embarrassed with new difficulties, and will harass his mind, in vain, with the hopeless labour of uniting heterogeneous ideas, digesting independent hints, and collecting into one point the several rays of borrowed light, emitted often with contrary directions.

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.