Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of laws written on parchment, will be as vain as to put up printed notices in an orchard to keep off the canker-worms.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.