[the Monks'] Minds Were Inaccessible To Reason

Bad Roads And Indifferent Inns, ... The Continual Converse One Is Obliged To Have With The Vilest Part Of Mankind - Innkeepers, Post-masters, And Custom House Officers.

We Improve Ourselves By Victories Over Ourselves. There Must Be Contest, And We Must Win.

Greek Is Doubtless The Most Perfect [language] That Has Been Contrived By The Art Of Man.

Truth, Naked, Unblushing Truth, The First Virtue Of All Serious History, Must Be The Sole Recommendation Of This Personal Narrative.

Philosophy, With The Aid Of Experience, Has At Length Banished The Study Of Alchymy; And The Present Age, However Desirous Of Riches, Is Content To Seek Them By The Humbler Means Of Commerce And Industry.