We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.