Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.

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.

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.

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

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

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.