There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.

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

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

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.

Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.