It is to hope, though hope were lost.

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

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.

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

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

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.