The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

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

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,--affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.