Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

Information upon points of practical politics.