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Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.
If a man should register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.
Books, the children of the brain.
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
A penny for your thoughts.
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