The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

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

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!

Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides, the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because in committing it the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.

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