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

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

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

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship.

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.