To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.