All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhaustible sources of perfection. We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for it.

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.