“Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.”

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”

“Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into disputation, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinburgh.”

“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.”

“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”

“We must all hang together or we shall most assuredly all hang separately.”

“What Comfort can the Vortices of Descartes give to a Man who has Whirlwinds in his bowels!”