Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.