though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.

Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.