When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but their very selves, her imagination was occupied with melancholy earnestness to trace the mazes of misery, through which so many wretches must have passed to this gloomy receptacle of disjointed souls, to the grand source of human corruption.

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.