Life protracted is protracted woe.
Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
True enjoyments also keep people from vice.
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use.