We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishi….

Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru..

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes..

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement..

A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity..

Crimes generally punish themselves..

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are..

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all..

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity,….

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry..

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns..

How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!.

Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom..

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from pos….

All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins..

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations..

A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined..

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues..

As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show; But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd….

Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exul….

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected..