Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management ofexternal things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages.