It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.

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.

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.

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

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

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