A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.

Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.

Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason.