There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

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

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.

We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.

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.