there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy.

It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.

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

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.