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

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.

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach.

We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.