It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

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

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.