the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.

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.

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

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.

I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.

marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.