I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

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

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.