“Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man”

“Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice”

“A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world”

“Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another”

“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn”

“The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their lives, which infallibly destroy them”