Most Men Are Unwilling To Be Taught.

If We Estimate Dignity By Immediate Usefulness, Agriculture Is Undoubtedly The First And Noblest Science.

The Authour Who Imitates His Predecessors Only By Furnishing Himself With Thoughts And Elegances Out Of The Same General Magazine Of Literature, Can With Little More Propriety Be Reproached As A Plagiary, Than The Architect Can Be Censured As A Mean Copier Of Angelo Or Wren, Because He Digs His Marble Out Of The Same Quarry, Squares His Stones By The Same Art, And Unites Them In Columns Of The Same Orders.

Employment And Hardships Prevent Melancholy.

Actions Are Visible, Though Motives Are Secret.

Deign On The Passing World To Turn Thine Eyes, And Pause Awhile From Letters, To Be Wise.