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

Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.

It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.

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.

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