The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.