ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.

Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.