The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.

The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea.