When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.

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

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

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .