Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.