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

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.

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

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

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

The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

We can only love what we know.