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 well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.

You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.

it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

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

We can only love what we know.

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.