To Strive With Difficulties, And To Conquer

When Desperate Ills Demand A Speedy Cure, Distrust Is Cowardice, And Prudence Folly.

Among The Innumerable Mortifications Which Waylay Human Arrogance On Every Side May Well Be Reckoned Our Ignorance Of The Most Common Objects And Effects, A Defect Of Which We Become More Sensible By Every Attempt To Supply It. Vulgar And Inactive Minds Confound Familiarity With Knowledge And Conceive Themselves Informed Of The Whole Nature Of Things When They Are Shown Their Form Or Told Their Use; But The Speculatist, Who Is Not Content With Superficial Views, Harasses Himself With Fruitless Curiosity, And Still, As He Inquires More, Perceives Only That He Knows Less.

It Is Our First Duty To Serve Society, And After We Have Done That, We May Attend Wholly To The Salvation Of Our Own Souls.

The Whole Of Life Is But Keeping Away The Thoughts Of Death.

The End Of Writing Is To Instruct; The End Of Poetry Is To Instruct By Pleasing.