A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

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

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.