Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.

Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all