many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

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.

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

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

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

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

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.