Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

Death cannot kill what never dies.

The public must and will be served.