When I Consider This Carefully, I Find

And I Shall Always Hold Myself More Obliged To Those By Whose Favour I Enjoy Uninterrupted Leisure Than To Any Who Might Offer Me The Most Honourable Positions In The World.

... Regard This Body As A Machine Which, Having Been Made By The Hand Of God, Is Incomparably Better Ordered Than Any Machine That Can Be Devised By Man, And Contains In Itself Movements More Wonderful Than Those In Any Machine. ... It Is For All Practical Purposes Impossible For A Machine To Have Enough Organs To Make It Act In All The Contingencies Of Life In The Way In Which Our Reason Makes Us Act.

Every Man Is Indeed Bound To Do What He Can To Promote The Good Of Others, And A Man Who Is Of No Use To Anyone Is Strictly Worthless.

For To Be Possessed Of A Vigorous Mind Is Not Enough; The Prime Requisite Is Rightly To Apply It.

For Each Of Us There Is A Set Limit To Our Intellectual Powers Which We Cannot Pass.