Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.