In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.

As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.