Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

Every woman is at heart a rake.

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.