The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.

Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.

Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.