Curiosity is its own suicide.

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

We would liken music to Aladdin's lamp — worthless in itself, not so for the spirits which obey its call. We love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings, it can summon with a touch.

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.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

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