the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.

The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.

An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue.

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.