Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.

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

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.