The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

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

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

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.