-Life is uncertain.
-I do not think that the writings of Caesar and Tacitus can be more interesting to a true judge of human nature and society.
-School and other education constantly proceed upon false principles, and show a clumsy apparatus pointed at a false mark.
-It is at youth that we plant our chief habits and prejudices.
-Why are weaker men to be deprived of such helps, when we see our race has been blundering on in the dark, almost without a guide in this particular, from the farthest trace of time?
-What more worthy of experiments and system that human life?
-Another thing demonstrated will be the propriety of every man's waiting for his time for appearing upon the stage of the world. Our sensations being very much fixed to the moment, we are apt to forget that more moments are to follow the first, and consequently that man should arrange his conduct so as to suit the whole of a life.
-Your attribution appears to have been applied to your life, and the passing moments of it have been enlivened with content and enjoyment, instead of being tormented with foolish impatience or regrets.
-Dr. Franklin praised your frugality, diligence and temperance, which he considered as a pattern for all youth; but it is singular that he should have forgotten your modesty and your disinterestedness, without which you never could have waited for your advancement, or found your situation in the mean time comfortable; which is a strong lesson to show the poverty of glory and the importance of regulating our minds.
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