Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

See in what peace a Christian can die.