It is to hope, though hope were lost.

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

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

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.

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

The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.