Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.

True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

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

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.