Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

To be rude is as good as being clever.

How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!

My heart is its own grave!

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

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.