Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.

Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.