[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.