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

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

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

The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

The first pale blossom of the unripened year.