An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.