Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.

it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.

We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

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

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?