Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

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

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.

The very pink of perfection.

Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.