It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.