The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

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

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

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.