Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristicks of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.
London, England
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
The world will hardly admit of an excuse for a man leaving a coast unexplored he has once discovered.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
All men by nature desire to know.
