It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.

So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.