To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.