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.

Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.

But winter lingering chills the lap of May.

As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

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

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.